Msdyn365bc 2021 Wave 1 - What's New and Planned?

Hi Readers,

Today Microsoft announced what will be new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1.

In this article, I will list down all new features in 2021 Wave 1.

As discussed in last Microsoft Keynote, features are grouped in 8 Groups.

Below is the list of all changes planned for Business Central 2021 Wave 1.

I have marked my favorites as *.  In Comment to this article please share feature that you like most.

Country and regional

1. Country and regional expansion – Greece
2. Country and regional expansion – India  *
3. Country and regional expansion – Romania
4. Country and regional expansion – Turkey

Administration 

1. Improve the reliability of the database export operation for larger databases with more companies
2. Improvements for the Delegated Administrators
3. Reassign an environment from one Azure Active Directory organization to another

Application

1. Assisted setup helps move the task of adjusting item costs to the background  *
2. Automatic creation of lot and serial number information cards *
3. Bank reconciliation improvements
4. Changes in synchronization between contact and customer
5. Define lot sizes for various stages of production
6. Dimension corrections (for G/L entries)  *
7. More control over settings for default dimensions
8. Payment reconciliation journal improvements
9. Simplified bank statement file import

Modern clients

1. Report API allows passing the layout needed for report execution
2. Reports run in the background
3. Client performance improvements
4. Usability enhancements for the Business Central web client
5. Enable cloud printing on mobile app (phone and tablet) and from Microsoft Teams app
6. Users can change the assigned printer before printing a report *

Modern development tools

1. Partners can add keys (indexes) to base tables and table extension tables *
2. Extension validation on upgrade *
3. Interface – obsolete support
4. Report extensibility *
5. Return record link instead of name when using lookups

Onboarding

1. Getting started checklists for guided and faster initial setup
2. Improve the experience of getting started with Power BI
3. Improved company setup experience
4. In-app contextual help improvements

Better with Microsoft 365

1. Look up Business Central contacts from within Microsoft Teams
2. Enablement of Word merge in Business Central
3. Support cloud printing using Microsoft Universal Print

Microsoft Power Platform

1. Virtual tables for Microsoft Dataverse.
2. Synchronize item availability from Business Central to Dynamics 365 Sales
3. Enable Power BI connector to work with Business Central APIs, instead of with web services only

Are you Ready so great features that will be available in future?

Hope article helps you to see in the future.

Regards,

Saurav Dhyani

www.sauravdhyani.com